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How Page came to be a Trump foreign-policy adviser in the first place remains a point no one on Team Trump has been able to explain. Tapper then pressed Page to be transparent and clear his name by sharing who hired him for the Trump campaign, but Page refused to provide a name.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on March 27 that the sculpture would remain on Department of Transportation property as part of a municipal art program until February 2018. The creator of Wall Street's iconic " Charging Bull " statue is calling for the removal of the corporate-financed "Fearless Girl" sculpture recently placed nearby, claiming it commercially exploits his work by appearing to stare down the bovine.

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had forged good "chemistry" with China's Xi Jinping during their summit in Florida, adding that he believes Beijing is willing to work with Washington on North Korea. Trump has repeatedly called on China to do more to rein in its reclusive neighbour and close ally, which has stepped up its missile development and nuclear programme since 2016.

He said later on Wednesday that the United States was prepared to tackle the crisis without China, if necessary. Trump has repeatedly called on China to do more to rein in its unruly neighbor, which has stepped up its missile development and nuclear program since 2016.

Master Police Officer Robert McDonald "stepped outside the guiding principles of our agency", a statement from the Gwinnett County Police Department says. Page, a model and actor who appeared in TV show American Horror Story, said: 'They'd have covered this up if it was not for this video'. "We're all trying to make sense of this but you can't really make sense to such a kick to the face", Page said.

Could Syria have launched the chemical weapons attack with Russia's advance knowledge? German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande spoke about the situation in Syria today (7 April) and want to continue efforts to hold Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to account for "criminal acts", a statement from Berlin said.

A number of people were killed when a truck was driven into a department store in Sweden's capital, Stockholm . Akilov's court-appointed defense lawyer, Johan Eriksson , said the defendant "admits to having committed the terrorist crime" and did not oppose his continued detention.

President Trump has promised to reverse the increase in healthcare premiums and reduce the number of Americans uninsured without adding to the deficit. While the majority of people did not feel that because of subsidies, it's still unclear whether insurers will come back to the individual marketplace given the new administration's stance on the health-care law.

The civilians were killed when security forces opened fire on a group of such protesters in Dalwan village in Budgam district. Officials said that at most of these polling stations, protesters had snatched away the electronic voting machines (EVMs).

Prices slid to losses after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that U.S. producers boosted their output by 36,000 barrels a day last week, continuing a two monthlong string of weekly increases. This is because instead of bringing about stabilization in the oil patch, the US continued to pump oil and dampened the initial rally post OPEC deal.

Bolivia voted against the measure and 10 other council members supported it. After meeting with Tillerson, Sergey Lavrov warned the United States against any attempt to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power, saying it could lead to chaos as it did in Iraq and Libya, the CBC reports.

At least 89 people were killed and hundreds were injured by the chemical attack, which US officials believe was ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Previosly, the Kremlin declined to confirm whether Putin would be able to meet with Tillerson. The only other possibility Putin gave was the one given by the Assad regime-that a Syrian air strike hit a chemical weapons depot of the anti-Assad rebels.

It followed last week's Supreme Court decision to gut the opposition-controlled legislature of its last vestiges of power. Capriles, a two-time presidential candidate and current Miranda state governor, was seen by many as the opposition's best chance in the presidential election scheduled for 2018.

Adam Lowther, director of the US Air Force's school of deterrence told Business Insider in a phone interview. The GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), known as "the mother of all bombs", was first tested in 2003, but had not been used before in combat.

Speaking to journalists alongside Mr Lavrov, Mr Tillerson said: "There is a low level of trust between our two countries. The world's two foremost nuclear powers can not have this kind of relationship". Tillerson also raised the possibility that Russian Federation could be sanctioned further if tampering in the US presidential election is proven. Lavrov said such tampering is not proven, and urged a presumption of innocence.

On Tuesday, diplomats confirmed the UN Security Council meant to vote on the investigation into the Syria attack on Wednesday, just hours after Britain, France and the United States presented a new UN draft resolution demanding the probe.

But he clearly wasn't counting on it. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said there is a "low level of trust" between his country and Russian Federation following a meeting with Vladimir Putin. "How do you know that?" he said. Western powers say the April 4 gas attack was carried out from the air and that Syrian rebels do not have any aircraft.

The former Trump foreign policy adviser in the eye of a partisan storm over his role in the 2016 presidential campaign said Wednesday that allegations he acted as a Russian agent "were a joke", while Capitol Hill investigators privately say they're continuing to wrestle with the witness list for upcoming congressional inquiries into alleged Kremlin meddling in the 2016 elections.

North Korea's foreign ministry on Monday assailed Washington for its tough talk and for an ongoing joint military exercise with South Korea and Japan which Pyongyang sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says "the United States has spoken enough about North Korea" in reaction to North Korea's latest missile launch.

According to NBC New York , Di Modica believes that "Fearless Girl" alters the creative dynamic of " Charging Bull ". The 4-foot-11 "Fearless Girl" statue , done by artist Kristen Visbal , started facing the " Charging Bull " on March 7, the eve of International Women's Day.

Trump stated that informing the Congress of the background and motives behind the decision to attack Syria was in consistent with the War Powers Resolution. " We've seen the evidence on Assad, we know exactly what happened ", Haley claimed. US President Donald Trump is considering implementing new sanctions against Russian Federation and Iran, the US ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley has said in an interview with CNN .

In fact, Trump mentioned "dessert" or "cake" five times while telling the story. We had finished dinner. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing. Is it Donald's admission that he didn't want Xi to go home after a handsome dessert and learn that "the guy you just had dinner with attacked" another country? We were nearly finished.

With British exports of goods and services to Saudi topping 6.5 billion pounds ($8.1 billion) in 2015, the kingdom is Britain's largest Mideast trading partner, reports The Associated Press . The death toll is mounting from the war in Yemen, at least 7,700 civilians killed according to the United Nations, most by Saudi-led air strikes, and millions at risk of malnutrition or even starvation.

Earlier in an interview broadcast on Wednesday before the meeting with Tillerson, Putin said that mutual trust between Russian Federation and the USA, especially on the military level, had eroded in the first few months of Trump's presidency.

This was the first direct United States military action against the Syrian government during the years-long civil war that has ravaged the country. The U.S. Rebels have denied they own or can produce nerve agents like Sarin. Tillerson insisted he had no concerns about possible Russian retaliation after the United States attack on the airbase.

Manuel Valls: The former Prime Minister was expected to play a starring role for the Socialist party, one of the two parties that have dominated French politics for decades, but after losing out to party rebel Benoît Hamon, he announced plans to support Macron instead.

Putin, whom USA intelligence agencies say tried to help Trump get elected, insisted that relations with the US had only gone downhill since Trump took office in January. But such hopes appeared optimistic as the diplomats outlined their sharply diverging views on Syria. But Mr Tillerson repeated the administration's new belief that "the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end".

Distillate recorded a draw of 2.2 million barrels with a year-on-year decline of 8.1% and the overall fuel data maintained optimism surrounding potential near-term crude demand. The call on OPEC crude for 2017 will average 32.2 million b/d, a downward revision of 100,000 b/d from February's report but above the group's March output level of 31.93 million b/d, according to secondary sources .

Assad said the incident could not be taken seriously because the source of the information, he claimed, was al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Syria, Nusra Front. Our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. But the UK Ministry of Defence and Turkish authorities say they have carried out tests on samples that provide evidence that Sarin or a similar substance was used.

Trump addressed the attack in a news conference earlier Wednesday, saying that the attack "crossed a lot of lines" for him. President Donald Trump said he thinks Susan Rice, the former national security adviser for President Obama, may have committed a crime when she had the names of Americans - which turned out to be Trump associates - unmasked in intelligence reports , according to a report.

Thomas said the US intends to return to full offensive air operations against IS as soon as possible. Yet both have been sucked in and struggled to clearly define their objectives in the messy, complicated war. McMaster, Cornyn and Cardin spoke on " Fox News Sunday ", Tillerson appeared on ABC's "This Week" and CBS' "Face the Nation", Haley and Graham were on NBC's "Meet the Press" and Haley also appeared on CNN's "State of the Union".

Analysts say forecasting the French two-stage election is even more hard than usual, with an unusually high number of voters saying they do not plan to cast their ballots, or have not made up their minds. Le Pen is running neck-and-neck with centrist Emmanuel Macron in the April 23 first round , according to opinion polls. A proposal to turn French Polynesia into an associate state of France is being opposed by French presidential candidate Francois Fillon.

One passenger, a doctor who said he had patients to see, was removed by force. "That is not who our family at United is". The Department of Transportation's Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings said in a statement Tuesday that it had begun reviewing what happened on the flight.

Willful failure to register for foreign lobbying work can carry up to a five-year prison sentence, but the Justice Department rarely brings criminal charges and instead urges violators to register. The lobbying occurred in Washington from 2012 to 2014. Manafort resigned from Trump's campaign in August after revelations that he was paid millions of dollars to lobby on behalf of Yanukovych and his party.

It was the first time during the presidency of Donald Trump that the White House had ordered military action against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The governor of Homs, Talal Barazi, said that the strike proves that the United States is supporting terrorism within Syria . Washington D.C. (USA), Apr.